Rest and Injury at your table

[Ancalagon]

It also makes the fighter's beefy d10 HD less important.

Oh? How so?

 

[Tony Vargas]

If you re-gain HD more slowly than 1/2 HD per long rest, or cannot spend them (or as many of them) on a short rest - or don't have them at all - then, clearly, relative HD size becomes less significant.

 

[Ancalagon]

Reducing natural healing also makes the fighter's relatively beefy d10 HD less important.

Oh? How so?

 

[Tony Vargas]

Looks like we were two ninjas who passed in the night, there...

Oh? How so?

If you re-gain HD more slowly than 1/2 HD per long rest, or cannot spend them (or as many of them) on a short rest - or don't have them at all - then, clearly, relative HD size becomes less significant.

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?482999-Rest-and-Injury-at-your-table#ixzz45HQ3MxaP

 

[Ancalagon]

That is bizarre... I thought I had replied to you, didn't see my reply, refreshed, still not there... and now it's here! Note the posting interval.

Anyway, I think I see what you mean but I'll have to think on it, something doesn't quite jive... but maybe it's just me.

 

[Springheel]

As promised: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ive-way-to-deal-with-HP&p=6870674#post6870674

 

[sunrisekid]

Cross-posting but I hope relevant to this thread. Here's the houserule I'm considering:

* At 0HP the character is unconscious and finished for the fight.
* At the end of the fight make a single death save; success = stabilization, failure means the character bled out while everyone else was fighting.
* During the fight another PC can try to come to their rescue, e.g., dragging the character to safety to "stop the bleeding" with a healing kit.*
* Heal spells will not wake an unconscious/dying 0HP character, but will ensure stabilization.
* If the character stabilizes then roll on the Lingering Injury table (DMG p272). This injury affects the character for the rest of the adventure but disappears for the next adventure. Sleeping in the dungeon won't fix it, but downtime between games sessions will.

(Use of healing kit, bandaging wounds, CPR, etc, requires 1 minute, likely precluding use in a fight but not necessarily.)

Combining the above with healer kit dependency and slow natural healing.

 

[Psikerlord#]

This is very very similar to what we are experimenting with currently. So far it works excellent. No-one wants to drop to zero and being knocked unconscious often has a lasting effect (our injury table has a 17+ no injury window, so sometimes they come out unscathed).